Told from Milo's perspective, Milo's Adventures is a story of surrogacy, love and becoming a family. The hoping, waiting, excitement, and love are universal experiences of a loving family but Milo's story is unique as he has two daddies, a surrogate and a whole world who celebrates his birth on World Pride Weekend. We hope that this story helps everyone understand that Family is About Love!

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This book, Land Of The Giants, comes at a time when we need to focus once more on huge and sprawling business concentrations, looking currently at this as we enter full speed ahead into the twenty-first century. The present revelations are alarming, with the number and names of giant players seeking mergers and industry consolidations, at the ultimate expense of American consumers, is somewhat staggering. Business behavior and ethics have not improved at all from years past. Predatory pricing arrangements, outright discrimination, secret merger fixes, product tying arrangements, and a host of other business ills and connivance's are still around and going strong, while business law enforcement is overwhelmed to the point of losing sight of important goals and producing inconsistent and unfavorable results. This book on business giants includes a current and thoughtful analysis of present conditions, crossing nearly every industry, and including giants with such names as Microsoft, American Airlines, Office Depot, and a host of many more. The book also looks back in time to provide meaningful benchmarks for comparisons, focusing on such colossal business dynasties as the Rockefeller Oil Empire and the monopolistic meatpackers of bygone years. The question is addressed as to whether we as a nation have effectively moved forward in protecting the American consumer and smaller businesses from commercial abuses over the years, a sad legacy which unfortunately encompasses much of our nation's business background. Finally, the largest giant of them all, all-pervasive government, is granted some brief but important recognition, including narratives on how deeply entrenched this institution has become. Some interesting statistics on the endless size of government are presented, plus a few horrifying tidbits concerning the proficiency of government at all levels, notably including our friendly IRS. Lastly, if not more importantly, this book is perceived as another "wake-up call" on behalf of American citizens in recognition that power and concentration in anything, be that business or government, constitutes a successful formula for eventual abuse, and the evidence is here. For business, power, and concentration constitute the aggrandizement of wealth in a select few, at the sizeable expense of the vast majority.

While Alfred North Whitehead did not dedicate any books or articles to aesthetics specifically, aesthetic motifs permeate his entire philosophical opus. Despite this, aestheticians have devoted little attention to Whitehead; most attempts to reconstruct Whitehead’s aesthetics have come from process philosophers, and even in that context aesthetics has never occupied a central position. In this book, four scholars of aesthetics provide another angle from which Whiteheadian aesthetics might be reconstructed. Paying special attention to the notion of aesthetic experience, the authors analyze abstraction versus concreteness, immediacy vs. mediation, and aesthetic contextualism vs. aesthetic isolationism. For their interpretation of Whiteheadian aesthetics, the concepts of creativity and rhythm are crucial. Using these concepts, the book interprets the motif of the processes by which experience is harmonized, the sensation of the quality of the whole, and directedness towards novelty. The first chapter introduces Whitehead’s philosophical method of descriptive generalization. This method assumes that every philosophical system is based on a particular entry point. We show that for Whitehead this entry point was aesthetics. Chapter Two compares Whitehead and Dewey’s philosophies to show that both viewed aesthetic experience in terms of complex rhythms; this helps us better understand the differences and the continuities between everyday experience and art. Chapter Three compares Whitehead’s ideas with those of Henri Bergson, showing the way art reveals the form of immediate experience and how the aesthetic experience of art relates to truth. The final chapter details the processes that constitute aesthetic experience in a narrower sense, analyzing aesthetic experience from the perspective of the types of abstractive processes it involves and the complex types of experience it produces.

A ravenous creature that devours its victims, leaving nothing behind. A hero intent on stopping it before the creature kills again. A powerful magician, left for dead in the ruins of his father's castle, alive and thirsting for vengeance. Garrius Arilius rides to Quisin. There he risks his life and soul to consult a seer known only as the Old Witch. What is the nature of the mysterious creature? Where did it come from? How can Garrius kill it? The seer's answers to his questions are not what he expects. They set him on a course that will lead Garrius back to his childhood home, back to the kingdom he thought he'd left behind, back to a past he'd rather forget—and toward a future that has never seemed more uncertain or more perilous.

With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. “Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” --Phillip Pullman For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!